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Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
Mike Duncan - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Few in history can match the breadth and depth of the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought as one with righteous revolutionaries on both sides of the Atlantic.As an idealistic and courageous teenager... |
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Trials of the Earth The True Story of a Pioneer Woman.
Hamilton Mary Mann. - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing first-person account of Mississippi pioneer woman struggling to survive, protect her family and make a home in the early American SouthNear the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866 - c.1936) began recording her experiences in the backwoods of the Mississippi Delta.... |
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Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages
Carmela Ciuraru - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A witty, provocative look inside the tumultuous marriages of five famous writers, illuminating the creative process as well as the role of money, fame, and power in these complex and fascinating relationships.. "With an ego the size of a small nation, the literary lion is powerful... |
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Keep Moving: And Other Tips and Truths About Aging
Dick Van Dyke - Weinstein Books
Format: Print book
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Show-business legend Dick Van Dyke is living proof that life does get better the longer you live it. Who better to offer instruction, advice, and humor than someone who's entering his ninth decade with a jaunty two-step? Van Dyke isn't just a born song-and-dance man; his irrepressible belief... |
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John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
James Traub - Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Format: Print book
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John Quincy Adams was the last of his kind - a Puritan from the age of the Founders who despised party and compromise, yet dedicated himself to politics and government. The son of John Adams, he was a brilliant ambassador and secretary of state, a frustrated president at a historic turning... |
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Stories I tell myself : growing up with Hunter S. Thompson
Juan F Thompson - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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Hunter S. Thompson, "smart hillbilly," boy of the South, born and bred in Louisville, Kentucky, son of an insurance salesman and a stay-at-home mom, public school-educated, jailed at seventeen on a bogus petty robbery charge, member of the U.S. Air Force (Airmen Second Class)... |
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Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior
Arthur Herman - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A new, definitive life of an American icon, the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nations great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific Rim - from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of Gandhi & Churchill. Douglas MacArthur was arguably... |
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The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters
Susan Page - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time - Barbara Walters - a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules and finally gave women a permanent place on the air, written by bestselling author Susan Page.. Barbara Walters was a force... |
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